THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER, 24, 18b 8.
“ God is Out of It.”
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more childish than to see our sky pi­
lots on their knees praying to vacan­
This is the daily paper heading cy. Yet there are millions who can’t
of the announcement coming from see it in this light.
AND
Paris that henceforth the motto,
an d in S ilv e r to n ,
Christians certainly have scrip­
“God Protects France,” is to be
go to th e
tural warrant for their childish­ M a in S t r e e t
S ilv e r to n , O r e ’1
erased from the French coin. One
ness. In Mark x, 15, it is stated
newspaper sarcastically remarks
that Jesus said: “Verily I bay unto
CAKRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF
that this is a good thing, since for­ you, Whosoever shall not receive
eigners, seeing the inscription,
the kingdom of God as a little
might he led to believe that French­
child, he shall not enter therein.”
School
men still have faith in Providence,
This means that a man must
and it suggests that “Scnwartz-
S u p p lie s ,
believe all the ghost stories in the
Koppen Protects the Republic” !
N E A R T H E B R ID G E ,
Bible as a child believes the nurse­
Books
and
shouid be substituted for the dis­
ry tales of modern times in order to
AND B E ........................
credited and discarded motto. If
ionery.
get to heaven.—The Gleaner.
the French people who control this
matter really believed in a divine
Not Sustain ed by Souls.
Dealers in Fruits, Vegetables . W e l l F e d a t a
providence, their action would be
strictly in line with that of the
and Confectionery.
!
S m a ll
A minister with a beggarly sala­
Africans who, when disasters come, ry went to his deacon asking for an
pull down their god, strip it, beat increase. “Salary!” cried the dea­
it and curse it, and then, if fortune con in pious horror. “Salary!
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smiles, set it up again, ask pardon Why, I thought you worked for
for their bad treatment and do pen­ souls’”
ance for it, and then go on worship­ “And so I do,” replied the min­
ping it as before.
ister, “but I can not eat souls.
It would be an amazing spectacle And if I could, it would take a
. . . IS invaluable TO . . .
if we could see the face of “god” as good many souls the size of yours to
C a r p e n te r s a n d J o in e rs , f° r m o rtis­
he watches his children playing a make a dish.”—Boston Herald.
ing, such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak es th e
sort of football with him. The
place of chisel a n d gouge; to
Christian Yankees are trying hard
Only One.
C a b in e t M a k e r s , for inlaid w ork,
to stuff him into a dried up roll of
dow elling, p atch in g , rem oving sp lits and
Wifey—“Do you think there is a k n o ts. In fact, no wagon or p a tte rn m ak er,
parchment they call a constitution,
where, after all, he could only se­ man that could conscientiously say m an u fa c tu re r of piano9. organs, sew ing m achines, a g ricu ltu ral im p le m e n ts, s a s h :
b linds, fu rn itu re , n o r ANY O T H E R WOOD W O R K E R , should he w ith o u t it.
cure a temporary shelter from the to his wife, ‘You are the only wo­
AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED.
attacks of the Rationalists, while in man I ever loved?’ ”
Hubby—“Only one that I can
It ’8 th e only ro n n d b it in th e world th a t
France, and we believe also in
w ill bore a
Austria, he has been kicked out of think of.”
Wifey—“ Who? You, dearest?”
the public schools, and even in
Hubby—“O, no; Adam.”—Trav­
pious England, Canada and the
an d do all th a t any o th e r b it will do.
States he has been allowed but a elers.
minor and perfunctory attention at
PRICES.
Set
of
five,
differen
t sizes, p o s tp a id .. $2.60
the hands of the public school
W hose Fault?
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teacher. It must be a cold day for
Jones—“There is no rest for the
any god who dissolves partnership
with Mammon; and we are inclined wicked.”
A ddre«. LIBERAL universty co .,
Smith—“The
righteous
worry
S il v e r t o n , O e r q o n .
to think Yrahue may as well at
once quit the soul saving business them so.”—Pick Me Up.
in France when the people have
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Club R ales.
decided to scrape his name off their
coins, or, as we may say, have
The Weekly Oregonian is
agreed to stop offering franc-in­
best newspaper published in
cense to him.—Secular Thought.
OUR
Pacific Northwest. The subscrip­
tion price is SI.50 per year. We
Im agination.
will give it, together with the Torch
Some grown people have more of Reason, for the exceedingly low
imagination than little children. price of $1.75. You w ill get two
O FFER ED T O YOU
What are all the churches in the papers for a little more than the
land but big play houses built by price of one.
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Christians.
These houses are alleged to be
Special Notice.
haunted by the Holy Ghost. This T he a d v e rtis e r, P . O, Box 40, Silver-
ton, M arion Co., O re., d esirin g to form a
fancy has a tendency to keep peo­ colony
of F a ith is ts , w ith th e assistance
of o th e rs, for th e rea rin g , tra in in g and
ple awed.
of castaw ays, in accordance
In these houses of worship grown education
w ith th e m e th o d s laid dow n in Oahs}>e,
people meet and make believe they would confer w ith o th ers like m inded.
have a music-appreciating, praise-
loving, prayer-answering Father in
Secularists would you not like to
heaven.
have some letterheads printed with
They make believe He hates Secular sentiment and Wettstein’s
those who do not worship Him.
S ilverton, Oregon.
Freethougbt badge, to use in corre­
Some children are not allowed to spondence with your friends? We
play with their toys on Sunday, will furnish them to you with
but if the Christians were deprived your name and address printed on
of playing with their toy god, Je­ them for 75 cents per hundred,
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sus. on Sundays in their big play
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houses, they would feel oppressed.
Playing with dolls is no sillier or, you stand.
HEN HUNGRY
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